Here is a copy of the article printed in the South Shore Press at
Matic Beach on May 25, 1992, concerning the crash at South Haven Park.
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SOUTH SHORE PRESS
Vol. X, No 7
Tuesday, May 25, 1993
UFO CRASH AT SOUTHAVEN PARK?
by Robert Sands
A local investigative group that has been researching accounts of
unidentified objects on Long Island for the past five years released a
report (with photos and a video tape) yeaterday that claims an alien space
craft crashed into a remote area of Southaven Park in Shirley just before
Thanksgiving last year.
The incident happened just after 7:00 P.M. on the night of November 24,
according to John Ford, chairman of the Long Island U.F.O. Network, who
said that it has taken his group six months to do a thorough investigation.
It was just recently, though, that his group was able to acquire the video
and the photos. "We knew that something crashed into the park that night
and we have, bit by bit," said Ford, "been able to finally put the picture
together."
Several motorists who were traveling along Sunrise Highway that night,
according to Ford, contacted his organization and described what they
thought was a plane that was going down into the park. And many local
residents whose homes border Southaven report that they heard loud rumbling
sounds and saw strange lights.
"Eyewitness accounts have confirmed that a fire was reported immediately
after," noted Ford. "In addition, the roads around the park were blocked
off to travel by county and park police. The next day, and for a few days
after, the park was closed to the public."
One local resident who lives near the park said that for a five to six day
period after the incident, his house experienced numerous power surges and
the phone would ring strangely without anyone on the other end. "I ride
horses in the park so I'm pretty familiar with the activities there," said
the 45- year-old man who requested anonymity because of the sensitive
nature of his job ("they would fire me if they thought I believed in flying
saucers"). "For the next few days there were a lot of military helicopters
going over the park --- and I couldn't get in."
Records show that Southaven Park was closed between November 25 and 28.
According to park officials, the park was closed to the general public that
week because it was reserved for duck hunting.
Although some of the area fire departments were initially called, they were
turned back and the fire was handled by the federally controlled Brookhaven
National Laboratory Fire Department, said Ford.
Ford's group finally gained admittance into the park a week later. "We
found an area that was burned out and some trees were bent over," Ford
recalled. "A section looked like it had been plowed over by machinery." But
two things were of particular interest to Ford. "We were getting a higher
than normal radiation reading in the area, higher than regular background
radiation, and the fence line in that area," said Ford, "had no magnetic
reading." Ford explained that metal fences maintain a magnetic charge from
the Earth. "Something had stripped away the magnetic charge of the fence."
Last week Ford received what he had been waiting and hoping for: a video
film of the crash. "I can't say where I got it from because these people
who supplied the tape are afraid that the government will go after them."
Because of the poor quality of the tape, Ford has been working with video
specialists to try and enhance the quality of the picture and to produce
stills.
The video, a copy of which was given to South Shore Press, shows people
examining a bright reddish, metallic-type object about four-square feet
that appears to be emitting a white, cloudy gas, and a hissing sound can be
heard --- a sight and sound that resembles dry ice that has been exposed to
warmer temperatures. The next shot shows what appears to be a person trying
to lift up a body near a tree, but the poor quality of the film makes
positive identification impossible. In a final scene, three uniformed men
(wearing dark jackets and rounded caps similar to federal swat teams) are
seen placing a large shiny spread (similar to mylar) over something on the
ground. Ford makes no apologies for the poor quality of the video: "Things
are happening fast and the guy who took the shots doesn't want to be too
obvious." And he confesses that it is hard to get people to come forward
and admit what they've seen. "One of the major problems in researching UFOs
is that people are afraid of sounding like lunatics when describing
strange, unexplained events." But an even greater fear, notes Ford, is the
government. "You get involved with things that the government doesn't want
people to know and they can make life pretty tough for you."
What are Ford's conclusions about the Southaven incident? "We are still
very actively investigating this event. We believe that an extraterrestrial
craft, with aliens, crashed that night in the park --- and we are out to
prove it."
The Long Island U.F.O. Network has a 24-hour hotline number (286-3212) to
which Ford encourages people to call if they have any information on the
(Southaven) incident or any other (unexplainable) phenomenon. Or you can
call this reporter at 281-PRESS --- he would love to know what happened
that night.
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From: dzz8420@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (Dean Zevchek)
Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo
Subject: Long Island - Exposed
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Date: 8 Jul 93 02:47:00 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center / Cleveland, Ohio
The following information comes from New York UFO Researcher Bill
Knell's July newsletter. I stripped out some material which has been
already posted in numerous Long Island "Press Releases" here.
LONG ISLAND MEDIA "SCAMMED" BY FAKE UFO TAPE
FROM: Island Skywatch (A NY based UFO Research Membership Group
dedicated to serious UFO research and investigation)
TO: NYC/NY/L.I. AREA MEDIA, For Immediate Release - 6/9/93
WRITTEN BY: Bill Knell
This press release came on the heals of several others issued in the
past several years about L.I. "UFO Crashes" from LIUFON. In this, the
third press release of it's kind (Ford claimed two other crashes
occured previously), Ford again claimed a massive cover-up by
Suffolk County Police and the Federal Government. But, he also
claimed that a video was taken during the crash by an anonymous
photographer (he claimed this before in one of the earlier "crash"
cases) and that the video was so spectacular that it would appear
later this year on Unsolved Mysteries.
Island Skywatch takes great exception to the spread of false
information about the UFO subject by Mr. Ford and his organization.
We believe, as in the case of the two previous UFO "Crashes", this
one is a complete fraud perpetrated by Ford and LIUFON for fame and
financial gain. Mr. Ford has already used his position as a Suffolk
County Court Officer to harass people who have opposed him in the
UFO Field with threats of arrest, legal harassment and violence and,
subsequently, has been investigated by NYS Courts Inspector General
for these matters.
Sadly, at least one major LI Newspaper has fallen prey to Ford's
false information in the May 24, 1993 press release and has printed
it as fact. But, here are the real facts - Bob Kiviat, a researcher
for Unsolved Mysteries at Cosgrove-Meurer Productions, told Bill
Knell that the video Ford mentioned to back up his claim about the
November 24th, 1992 UFO Crash in Suffolk County had been declared a
HOAX by Dr. Bruce Maccabee of Silver Spring, Maryland (a
photographic expert who works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
and Robert Oschler, a photographic analyst and scientist who donates
is expertise to the Mutual UFO Network. (He has worked on other UFO
videos for Unsolved Mysteries.) Hence, Unsolved Mysteries never had
any intention of covering the case in any episode. We hope that the
newspapers who cover such matters will, in the future, do so in a
more responsible manner.
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Subject: Re: UFO crash at Southhaven Park, Long Island NY ?
From: kathy kasten
Date: 1996/02/02
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corryn@ix.netcom.com (Corryn Thorgersen ) wrote:
> Supposedly, a UFO crashed at a park about eight miles from my home on the
>eve of my birthday three years ago.
> Does anyone know the details of this crash? I cannot find anything
>in the local papers on it. My younger cousin wanted to do a report on it
>for school, but when she approached the witnesses to the crash (park rangers,
>firemen who reported to the scene) they told us they could not say anything,
>that she should find something else to write a report on.
>We thought that it was all kind of creepy.
> Besides the crash at Roswell, I know of no other. How come this was not
>as widely publicized? I heard they even recovered parts of the craft.
>
Would you like to know the story from someone who was there, or do you
want to buy into J.B. Michaels overwrought and under researched book?
If you want the true it lies more in the direction of asking what
aircraft Grummans was testing that night, and wondering whether a test
pilot died. It could be that human being was the first African American
test pilot. There really is no way to link the death of William Ivys
with the crash that happened that night out on Long Island. Instead, we
get wild imaginations at work, and miss mourning the death of heroic
human. What a tragedy. Just think - the first African American test
pilot. What a loss to young African Americans growing up not to know
about this man; he could have provided a positive role model. No,
instead we got all this crap around about crashed off-world vehicles.
You can check JB's book; you will see my name mentioned there. You can't
know how disappointed I am that JB didn't put the truth about this
incident out there in the public eye. Especially, after I was so careful
to explain to him what happened.
Kathy
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